Installation of R machine learning client for SAP HANA

[thomasyuan]

I have been trying to install hana.ml.r following the instruction at help.sap.com:

https://help.sap.com/doc/c48739beb06a4304a98e44b4d5b60a50/2.0.05/en-US/hana.ml.r/html/00Index.html

However the command install.packages("hana.ml.r") returned:

"package ‘hana.ml.r’ is not available for this version of R"

And CRAN repository doesn't seem to have hana.ml.r, either:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html

Anyone who has been successful on this recently?

P.S. I know the other way to install it is extracting the .gz file from HANA Client package and install the local file. But installing from CRAN should work according to the help page, and it is much more preferable, isn't it?

[xinchen · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your questions.

Which version of R you are using? I tried R 3.6 and 4.0, there is no problem.

P.S. You are right. The current release channel is HANA Client package only and it is not available on CRAN.

Best Regards,

Xin

[thomasyuan]

Thank you Chen Xin. I have no problem running the library, if it is installed through a local file.

However I was under the impression that the package had been available on CRAN. Because according the link https://help.sap.com/doc/c48739beb06a4304a98e44b4d5b60a50/2.0.05/en-US/hana.ml.r/html/00Index.html , it can be installed through command:

install.packages("hana.ml.r")

Thanks for clarification anyway!

[xinchen]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your reply!

I will update the installation documentation.

Thank you！

Bye for now,

Xin